Animals that Live in the Mirror
Excuse me a moment friends, I hope you don’t mind if I pull a memory from my thoughts for a moment,
Animals That Live in the Mirror
In one of the volumes of the Lettres edifiantes et curieuses that appeared in Paris sometime during the first half of the eighteenth century, Father Zallinger, of the company of Jesus, mentioned the possibility of compiling a catalog of the il-preliminary listing, he noted that the Fish was an elusive, gleaming creature that no one had ever touched but that many people believed they had seen in the depths of mirrors. Father Zellinger died in 1736, and the work begun by his pen remained unfinished; 150 years later, Herbert Allen Giles, took up the interrupted labor. According to Giles, belief in the Fish is part of a broader myth, which goes back to the legendary age of the Yellow Emperor.
“In those days, the world of mirrors and the world of men were not, as they are now, separate and unconnected. They were, moreover, quite different from one another; neither the creatures nor the colors nor the shapes of the two worlds were the same. The two kingdoms – the specular and the human – lived in peace, and one could pass back and forth through mirrors.
One night, however, the people of the mirror invaded this world. Their strength was great, but after many bloody battles, the magic of the Yellow Emperor prevailed. The Emperor pushed back the invaders, imprisoned them within the mirrors, and punished them by making them repeat, as though in a kind of dream, all the actions of their human victors. He stripped them of their strength and their own shape and reduced them to mere servile reflections. One day, however, they will throw off that magical lethargy.”
Jorge Luis Borges
OK, another one of the Corax rants, but seriously, it just reminded me, replace the mirror with the shadow, perhaps they too are trapped in their victors shape….
We meet, and we put on our masks…
Have you ever had an intimate conversation with your reflection or shadow? Looke din your mirror and seen someone else deep down in there?
Who are you? What name and image do you go by this evening? (Kaia, Drang, Amalia, Harsh, Billy, Scarlet, etc, etc.
Take from it what you will, I just found it interesting. No, I’m not crazy, just wanted to share my crazy thoughts!
